Oh yeah, and I just found out Colorado has giant, tarantula sized spiders that aren't tarantulas. Wtf? Discovered this the hard way when I opened the door one morning, and found a fist sized creature sitting on my doormat. I actually said out loud, "nope" and shut the door. It left some time later.

UtileDysfunktion:I don't mind the spiders so much as the house centipedes. Spiders just go about being spiders when you're around, they don't care. The house centipedes see you and they dart around trying to hide, like cockroaches. Problem is, they're really bad at it. They think that if they can't see you, you can't see them either.

I was getting ready for work and set my lunch bag down on the kitchen counter for just a few seconds while I grabbed something else. Go to pick up the bag and notice around 50 legs poking out from underneath. (pick up bag... smack... off to work...)

Me too! Spiders are no bother, but those other things...Silverfish?Those are nasty as hell and have some sort of gel body. Ick!

CleanAndPure:Doesn't surprise me... predators usually are amongst the most intelligent creatures...

... and roaches have as much intelligence as many small mammels.

... remember that next time you squish one... you're killing an intelligent creature.

The Masters of Karma have stated that a man cannot be made to return as an insect (having a less-than-complete understanding of taxonomic organization), and the killing of an insect is a karmically inoperative act. Nevertheless, all life being one, in my house all do practice the doctrine of ahimsa and refrain from taking life of any sort.

Yet, Patanjali does state that it is the intention rather than the act which governs. Therefore, if I killed with love rather than malice, it would be as if I had not killed. I confess that this has not always been the case and that malice was sometimes present - therefore, even if I did not kill, I do bear the burden of the guilt because of the presence of that intention. So I could step upon several spiders now and be none the worse for it, according to the principle of ahimsa. Since I am a guest on this planet, however, I of course respect the practice and no longer do this thing.

Bathysphere:Oh yeah, and I just found out Colorado has giant, tarantula sized spiders that aren't tarantulas. Wtf? Discovered this the hard way when I opened the door one morning, and found a fist sized creature sitting on my doormat. I actually said out loud, "nope" and shut the door. It left some time later.

I like to believe I would have done the same. In reality, I most probably would have made some unholy sound emanating from somewhere in my gut, while slamming the door hard enough to loosen the hinges and running to the furthest point from the spider I could and still be contained inside the house. I would then leave by a window later just in case it was still there.

My husband asked me to take the large daddy long legs spider out of the bathroom before he left for work this morning. I asked "Are you sure? He's been doing a really good job spidering in there." But he wants the spider out because he says that breed are slobs.

UtileDysfunktion:I don't mind the spiders so much as the house centipedes. Spiders just go about being spiders when you're around, they don't care. The house centipedes see you and they dart around trying to hide, like cockroaches. Problem is, they're really bad at it. They think that if they can't see you, you can't see them either.

I was getting ready for work and set my lunch bag down on the kitchen counter for just a few seconds while I grabbed something else. Go to pick up the bag and notice around 50 legs poking out from underneath. (pick up bag... smack... off to work...)

They're creepy, no doubt about it, but I heard they kill cockroaches, so they have that going for them, which is nice.

Bathysphere:Oh yeah, and I just found out Colorado has giant, tarantula sized spiders that aren't tarantulas. Wtf? Discovered this the hard way when I opened the door one morning, and found a fist sized creature sitting on my doormat. I actually said out loud, "nope" and shut the door. It left some time later.

What area of CO are you in? Largest I have seen was maybe 3/4th's of an inch.

mbillips:I watched a spider putting the sticky circles on its web just this morning. It was one of those little guys who looks kinda like a bit of bird poop. I had to remember not to walk through it, though because he'd strung the web right across the most convenient path out of my back yard.

This is his species, I think:

I love watching orb weavers spin their webs. When I was a kid, I assumed the web strands just stuck to each other because they were sticky. Then I was watching a spider spin once and realized they actually tie little knots to hold the web together. It's freaking insane to watch.

/also, your spider is probably female//the male orb weavers have mostly died off by now, and the females are making webs to build up protein and lay their eggs

Two16:UtileDysfunktion: I don't mind the spiders so much as the house centipedes. Spiders just go about being spiders when you're around, they don't care. The house centipedes see you and they dart around trying to hide, like cockroaches. Problem is, they're really bad at it. They think that if they can't see you, you can't see them either.

I was getting ready for work and set my lunch bag down on the kitchen counter for just a few seconds while I grabbed something else. Go to pick up the bag and notice around 50 legs poking out from underneath. (pick up bag... smack... off to work...)

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No panic involved. The centipede had been running around the kitchen sink area for at least a week. At the same time, a small spider had built a web behind the faucet. I was curious as to who would eat whom so I let them both be. Turns out, they had some sort of non-aggression treaty between them.

SearchN:Bathysphere: Oh yeah, and I just found out Colorado has giant, tarantula sized spiders that aren't tarantulas. Wtf? Discovered this the hard way when I opened the door one morning, and found a fist sized creature sitting on my doormat. I actually said out loud, "nope" and shut the door. It left some time later.

What area of CO are you in? Largest I have seen was maybe 3/4th's of an inch.

Denver metro area. I like spiders, I'm a spider person, but a big strange spider is like a big strange dog. This thing was the biggest goddamn wild spider I have ever seen.

We have a beast of a wolf spider living in our garage. It's so huge that my wife initially thought it was a mouse. It keeps the garage clear of everything. I know exactly where it lives and give it space, lol. Sometimes, when I pull in to the garage at night, the beast is sitting smack in the middle of the garage as if saying "Come at me bro" to all of the bugs. I've tried to catch it before so that I can take a picture but it's so freaking fast that I have failed every time.

Bathysphere:SearchN: Bathysphere: Oh yeah, and I just found out Colorado has giant, tarantula sized spiders that aren't tarantulas. Wtf? Discovered this the hard way when I opened the door one morning, and found a fist sized creature sitting on my doormat. I actually said out loud, "nope" and shut the door. It left some time later.

What area of CO are you in? Largest I have seen was maybe 3/4th's of an inch.

Denver metro area. I like spiders, I'm a spider person, but a big strange spider is like a big strange dog. This thing was the biggest goddamn wild spider I have ever seen.

Weird. Doing a google search on spiders in CO not finding anything that large. Guessing it was someones escaped pet.

SearchN:Bathysphere: Oh yeah, and I just found out Colorado has giant, tarantula sized spiders that aren't tarantulas. Wtf? Discovered this the hard way when I opened the door one morning, and found a fist sized creature sitting on my doormat. I actually said out loud, "nope" and shut the door. It left some time later.

What area of CO are you in? Largest I have seen was maybe 3/4th's of an inch.

Could be a camel spider. They're not actually spiders, and in the Middle East they get HUGE; not sure about the ones in Colorado. They're not likely to bite you, but it's a mofo if they do. Not dangerous, just super painful.

UtileDysfunktion:Two16: UtileDysfunktion: I don't mind the spiders so much as the house centipedes. Spiders just go about being spiders when you're around, they don't care. The house centipedes see you and they dart around trying to hide, like cockroaches. Problem is, they're really bad at it. They think that if they can't see you, you can't see them either.

I was getting ready for work and set my lunch bag down on the kitchen counter for just a few seconds while I grabbed something else. Go to pick up the bag and notice around 50 legs poking out from underneath. (pick up bag... smack... off to work...)

[dontpanic.jpg]

No panic involved. The centipede had been running around the kitchen sink area for at least a week. At the same time, a small spider had built a web behind the faucet. I was curious as to who would eat whom so I let them both be. Turns out, they had some sort of non-aggression treaty between them.

I watched a house centipede crawl across my ceiling for about forty-five minutes once, because it was sloooooowly headed toward a medium-sized spider who was crawling equally slowly, and I wanted to see them fight.

When they got within an inch or so of each other, both of them stopped and just stared at one another for about two straight minutes, then they just went around each other and continued on their ways, like Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog. Very anticlimactic.

Spiders in my home can either eat stuff that annoys me, or starve. Either is cool with me. They don't bother me when they sit in their corner of the room, and the occasional cobweb takes 5 seconds each to remove when it's old and dusty enough to become actually visible.

mbillips:SearchN: Bathysphere: Oh yeah, and I just found out Colorado has giant, tarantula sized spiders that aren't tarantulas. Wtf? Discovered this the hard way when I opened the door one morning, and found a fist sized creature sitting on my doormat. I actually said out loud, "nope" and shut the door. It left some time later.

What area of CO are you in? Largest I have seen was maybe 3/4th's of an inch.

Could be a camel spider. They're not actually spiders, and in the Middle East they get HUGE; not sure about the ones in Colorado. They're not likely to bite you, but it's a mofo if they do. Not dangerous, just super painful.

Pretty distinct looking bug, was looking more for a tarantula type. As I mentioned up thread, there are some great insicticides out there that lay down a 9 month barrier, safe to use with animals around once they dry. Since the temps been dropping recently, really glad I put some down over the weekend. Saw the weirdest thing yesterday though, one of the area's I covered had a spider standing in front of it. Spider wouldn't move any closer to the barrier, not even to get away from me. Had to catch the little guy and take him outside, figured if he was smart enough to notice something wasn't right about the area he was going into he was smart enough to live.

I usually have a live-and-let-live philosophy when it comes to spiders, but this morning I went into my daughter's bedroom to help her find her shoes and a spider was hanging from the ceiling fan right in front of my face. The last thing that went through his head may have been feelings of depression, followed quickly by my hand.

What the fark? I live in Hawaii. I've been bitten by a shark, stung by a scorpion, stung by a centipede ... I've had more bizarre shiat like that happen than anyone I know, and now I have to worry about foot-wide spiders?? WHAT THE F*CK?

What the fark? I live in Hawaii. I've been bitten by a shark, stung by a scorpion, stung by a centipede ... I've had more bizarre shiat like that happen than anyone I know, and now I have to worry about foot-wide spiders?? WHAT THE F*CK?

I hate you for making me aware of that thing.

Was actually surprised when he mentioned those 2 states. Paradise ain't so great now, is it?